QOTD - already did our 'biggie' (Alaska Cruise) a couple weeks ago. Do have some smaller trips planned including a 4 day trip in July to the upper peninsula area of Michigan to run the Great Lakes Relay race and a 4 day trip in August to Granite Lakes in Yosemite for backpacking.

QOTD: On Thursday we are going to depart Thousand Oaks at 2:00 AM and drive to Boulder, CO. We'll stay with friends there a few days and then drive to Tuscon, AZ to see my Dad for a few days. Then we'll drive back to TO. I'm guessing around 3000 miles altogether. This will be with my two girls 7 and 4 as well as my wife. Wish me luck!!.

QOTD - currently living my summer trip by doing an 11-day vacation in the Big Island, coupled with running the Kona marathon. I might go on a week-end trip sometimes during the summer but nothing firmly planned yet.

Thanks for getting us started, Carpe DM, as well as for keeping the alliteration alive!

QOTD: Nothing, really (much to my wife's chagrin). We're doing a short trip to San Francisco for a family mrmber's birthday later this week. We're also talking about a trip to visit family in the Midwest toward the end of summer.

WOTD: plan is for some intervals, probably 8x400 at something like 5K pace -30. that's pretty much 5K goal pace for next week. We'll see.

QOTD - Will head to Oahu mid August for 8 days. Airfare plus staying at the same hotel that I did the last time I was there five years ago is costing me 46% more. I guess I should have priced out the trip before I set my family's expectation that we were going to Hawaii. Had I known, it would have been "Hello Vegas" and its $79 hotel rooms.

WOTD - 6 miles later

PR - Marathon (3:37:59 Canyon City Marathon 11/15/14)

Next: Long Beach Marathon - October 11 Canyon City Marathon- November 7

I'm camping with Mrs. hillcrusher and some friends on the coast over Labor Day weekend. That's 2 weeks after school ends so I don't have time or money for any other trips this year. Being done with school and having time and energy to relax, workout, and putter around the house is going to be sufficient diversion for me, though.

QOTD: Yes! All next week DH and I will be in the Thousand Islands region (along the St. Lawrence Seaway) to do a little fishing and R&R. It is very pretty there, but right now the weather looks a little iffy, with possibility of thundershowers every day.

About a week after that I will be spending the weekend in Utica, NY, to run the Boilermaker for the first time. With warm/humid summer weather, it could be a rough run, but I hear the post-race party is great (Saranac beer).

In August we're planning to spend a weekend with a large group of friends in Saratoga Springs, NY, to play the ponies, and a couple of weeks after that I head back to Utica for the second residency of my masters program. In early September, I'll be flying out west to do the Race to the Angel in Wells, Nevada. I'm also thinking of spending a few days in the Bay Area around that time and by then planning to stay in the area long enough to get/start a new job.

WOTD: Bowled really badly this morning. Later this afternoon my running club will be doing a 3,000 meter time trial in lieu of a track workout.

QOTD: I have no big trips planned for the summer, though I expect there will be a few long weekends backpacking in the Sierras. Anaheim, I'm with you on the cost of going to Hawaii! I was thinking of spending a few days in the islands in July, but I think the airfare alone was close to $1000 each...

WOTD: 8.4 rainy miles with 6x10s hill sprints. Summer in San Francisco!

QOTD: Not much. Just returned on our first little getaway as a family for the SF Marathon and the only other thing on the books is a couple nights in Salt Lake City for the September 14th Big Cottonwood Marathon.

DAILY:

Not sure yet. A rest day wouldn't be the end of the world but may be the end of my 300 mile quest for the month so I do hope I get in at least 6 or 7 miles.

In August we are flying into San Fran for a wedding out in Livermore, then probably road tripping from there to Portland with a friend who has a VW camper bus. We may stop and camp and trail run at Mt Shasta. Then after Hood-to-Coast we will fly back to Colorado.

WotD

AM: 6 easy early this morning with the doggies in the dark; PM: 30 min odd corework

QOTD: Vancouver for SeaWheeze half in August, though its sans hubby and son, and I'm quite bummed. No NZ trip this year due to the plethora of Q2 travel (destination weddings and Boston), so I'm really hoping to find a teleported machine so someone can teleport me put of here for the summer. I really dislike summers in the IE.